I’m saddened by the short-sightedness of the people who think that AI-generated political ads are cool, based and funny. They are not cool. They are the end of the political process. Using the physical likeness and the voice of people to make false representations should be illegal.
Right now an ad is being run in Kentucky showing Thomas Massie laughing and hanging out with AOC and Ilhan Omar. How many people will not read the tiny letters at the bottom of the screen saying it’s AI? How many people will think this really happened?
Do you realize how easy it is to have AI generate a video of anybody saying anything and engaging in any kind of perverted act? Forget the political process. What if somebody decides they want your job or your house? Or to take your kids away? Manufacturing a video of you engaging in acts of pedophilia is very easy. Why are we accepting that it’s normal and funny to make such videos?
That little prick in LA who is manufacturing these AI videos about Newsom, Harris and Bass is not cool. He should lose the race. I don’t care that he calls himself a Republican. He’s a total shit stain. And by the way, even putting aside the AI aspect, the videos are tasteless and stupid. We are going to accept this civilization destroying crap for a freshman-level prank?
What’s wrong with everybody? Is nothing more important than a couple of guffaws? The idea that we need to be entertained all the time and that being entertained is worth absolutely any tradeoff is wrong. Exactly at the time when everybody needs to embrace self-discipline and boundary, people let themselves melt into a puddle of goo.
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It is disgusting. I wish we had laws against doing that to people. In Denmark we have the same problem, also with people using the faces of politicians and inserting them in porn. At least when it is absurd like that and they used real video people could tell it was fake, but soon none of us will be able to distinguish the fake from the real.
It’s so weird we are entering a world where we won’t be able to trust anything we read, images we see or sounds we hear unless we have it directly from the source. It’s like the information overload we received with internet now means all information is worthless.
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Exactly! People think it’s cute because it’s new and hasn’t touched them yet. But once you normalize it, there’s no way back.
Making this illegal should be a priority.
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Is he generating the videos? I’ve seen garbage AI videos in support of his campaign, but from seemingly unaffiliated fans (and I believe it isn’t his campaign through a proxy simply because the videos are so cringe.) However, I am not actively following his campaign so I easily could’ve missed this from him.
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OK, good point. Maybe it’s not his fault. But whoever did do it is a jerk.
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In addition to that, they’re hurting whatever candidate they make this garbage on behalf of. AI slop is highly divisive and offputting.
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I thought the Batman-like ad was very clever. There’s no chance someone would think it was real. Haven’t seen the other type you talk about but I’m not ok with that.
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But it’s a slippery slope. Once we accept that it’s ok to use people’s likeness and voice without their consent or knowledge, we can’t use “they should have known it’s AI” as a criterion of acceptability. Imagine getting a video call from your husband or doctor telling you to wire money or that you have a terrible diagnosis. Ha, ha, you should have known. We are sacrificing a lot here, and for what? A few laughs over a video? I don’t think it’s worth it.
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